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Bill Maher on Casey Anthony, Bachmann and Atheism

MaxWildersays...

We really need to get our most vocal atheists to be more consistent on the definition of atheism. This "6.9 on a scale of 1 to 7" bullshit is not helping. You wanna say "skeptic", fine. You wanna say "agnostic", fine. But then follow it up with "Those are all types of atheism, which simply means non-religious."

xxovercastxxsays...

>> ^MaxWilder:

We really need to get our most vocal atheists to be more consistent on the definition of atheism. This "6.9 on a scale of 1 to 7" bullshit is not helping. You wanna say "skeptic", fine. You wanna say "agnostic", fine. But then follow it up with "Those are all types of atheism, which simply means non-religious."


Then don't say agnostic because it's not a "type of atheism". Agnosticism is the position that we cannot know one way or another because we are only human. It's a separate issue from what we believe or disbelieve.

MaxWildersays...

>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^MaxWilder:
We really need to get our most vocal atheists to be more consistent on the definition of atheism. This "6.9 on a scale of 1 to 7" bullshit is not helping. You wanna say "skeptic", fine. You wanna say "agnostic", fine. But then follow it up with "Those are all types of atheism, which simply means non-religious."

Then don't say agnostic because it's not a "type of atheism". Agnosticism is the position that we cannot know one way or another because we are only human. It's a separate issue from what we believe or disbelieve.


That is quite true, but that's not how people use the word these days. That is unfortunate, of course, but in my opinion it is not quite as bad as misusing the word "atheist". I'd rather pick that fight first. But I suppose as long as we're trying to fix one, we might as well try to fix both.

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